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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

― Vince Lombardi

Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

― Viktor Frankl

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

― Vernon Howard

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-old who had just run a marathon and was shot full of endorphin would say this but I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to let them know they're not alone. Then fearless women can reach out to help women who are fearful and take that first step using the vehicle of running because it's transformational. It works for every woman every time.

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

When I forgave Jock Semple on Heartbreak Hill, I also got really cross with women. I couldn't understand why they didn't get it, why they didn't know that running was so cool and why they weren't in the race as well. Then I thought to myself "How stupid can you be? You've had so much encouragement and motivation and these women haven't."

― Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

― Kara Goucher

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

― Kara Goucher

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

― Kara Goucher

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

― Kara Goucher

Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

― Kara Goucher

Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it's not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.

― Kara Goucher

Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.

― Kara Goucher

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